HERE COMES A BRAND NEW (AND HOPEFULLY GOOD) YEAR!
Christmas is mercifully over and a few days from now, the 4 in 2014 will mutate into 5. If you have an active social media life, you probably have encountered this little Facebook year-ender thingy where they give you words to mouth: “It’s been a great year. Thanks for being part of it.” As much as I want it posted on my account, ‘great ‘ hardly describes my 2014—bad, nay, awful will be more accurate. 2014 manhandled me. There were a few silver linings but most of my clouds were dark and gloomy and brought only rains. It’s as if the whole universe (and all the stars, planets, galaxies, aliens, astronauts in it) plotted and conspired to bring me down and plunge me into an abyss where not a single, even microscopic light dwell. It was as if I was there when Big Bang happened and it exploded in my face. Okay, well, it’s an exaggeration. I don’t think there was an explosion involved in Big Bang. My year’s really not that terrible but it’